Spill Monitoring at the LNG Canada project in Kitimat

Spill Monitoring at the LNG Canada project in Kitimat

2018-10-20 1 By lindorm

On October 2nd, a $40B liquified natural gas project got the go-ahead in Kitimat, British Columbia. A few days later, Lindorm CEO Dr. Ulf Erlingsson visited the dredging company Boskalis in Kitimat to fine tune the sediment spill monitoring that has been ongoing since July, using 3 SediMeter™ SM4 for detecting any spill in nearby eelgrass beds, and 1 additional instrument across the fjord for reference. 

A SediMeter™ platform for deploying from the surface in zones beyond the intertidal. Instead of a cage it relies on flipping over in case of being impacted by a log. To avoid a “blind spot” of sedimentation measurement between the steel plate and the first OBS detector, the end of the sensor is inserted in a depression in the plate. Note the copper tape on all surfaces except where there are optical detectors or LEDs.